Clinton supporters have one last play to deny Trump the presidency

Push for Electoral College to deny Trump win

MaryAnn Martinez, KENS11:19 AM. CST November 11, 2016

President-elect Donald Trump walks from a meeting at the U.S. Capitol November 10, 2016 in Washington, DC. Earlier in the day, Trump met with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images (Photo: Custom)

SAN ANTONIO -- On Thursday, people upset about Donald Trump's election floated an option that could deny him the White House.

For a second night, Americans protested the election of Donald Trump. Americans are taking to the streets and pushing for a Constitutional Hail Mary to stop Trump from becoming president.

“I feel sad, pissed off, and kind of degraded as a woman,” UTSA student Zoe Bacon said. “I think [Trump’s election is] a horrible representation of our country, and I would love to see anyone else in office except for Donald Trump.”

A petition on Change.org has about 2 million signatures asking the Electoral College to award their votes to Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump. Constitutional expert and political science professor Dr. Matthew Brogden at UTSA says that the members of the Electoral College, or electors, are chosen by their individual states.

“29 states bind their electors,” Dr. Brogden said. “That is as a matter of state law, they command their electors to vote for the person who won the popular vote in the state. The other 21 states do not bind their electors in that way.”

“I think he won it,” said Arvin Gowens, a Trump supporter. “I think America voted. There was a vote. We voted.”